As we covered earlier today, murder rates are dropping like a rock across the country. Some cities are seeing more success than others, though, and Baltimore, Maryland is one of those places. The city had more than 300 murders a year between 2015 and 2022, but last year Baltimore…

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Confusion around Department of Veterans Affairs footwear benefits is common, and understandably so, since there isn’t just one program. Two separate benefits actually get lumped together in conversation, plus a broader clinical service coordinates both. Here’s how the system works. Any VA-enrolled veteran whose VA clinician determines therapeutic footwear is…

Oh, Australia.Once a place I wanted to live in, and not just because the male-to-female ratio was attractive to me at the time. I mean, it’s what I think of as a beautiful place, and I still want to visit, even if literally everything wants to kill me. I…

The height/weight standards used in the military for decades to measure body composition were never able to distinguish between muscle mass and body fat. This is perhaps the biggest reason the military has made the universal change from measuring weight to measuring waist circumference. However, the new method does not…

Many of us in the Second Amendment community, and I include myself in what follows, have made some pretty serious mistakes at times. We’ve talked about the expansion of gun rights when various bits of gun control end. Shall-issue permitting in particular states, the Bruen decision, Hemani, constitutional carry,…

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The Navy has awarded a $22.9 billion contract to Raytheon to develop Tomahawk missiles. The U.S. has used missiles like these, which are capable of flying low to the ground to evade detection and can carry 1,000-pound conventional warheads to accurately strike targets up to 1,000 to 1,500 miles away,…

The FBI quietly released its official report on crime in the United States last Friday afternoon, an odd bit of timing considering the incredibly good news the report contains. Fridays are generally when government agencies and private businesses share news that they hope will avoid media attention, but the…

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Three years after a homeless man was shot three times while breaking into a Portland, Ore., granite shop, he is suing the business owner—an Army veteran—for $10 million. Kenneth Voyles, 43, broke into James Grant’s countertop shop before dawn on March 6, 2023, and was shot during the confrontation that…

It took longer than anticipated, but the Justice Department has officially rolled out its new process for felons and others prohibited from possessing firearms to have their Second Amendment rights restored.  The DOJ first announced its intent to provide an avenue for rights restoration last…

U.S Naval Forces Central Command has denied there is a shortage of hygiene products for women aboard the USS Boxer. The USS Boxer is a Navy Wasp-class amphibious assault. The 844-feet-long vessel carries between 1,200 to 1,600 Marines when fully deployed, and functions as a floating airfield and landing base…

When Portland, Oregon business owner James Grant shot an intruder who’d broken into his business more than three years ago, police declined to arrest him and prosecutors in the progressive city never brought charges against him.  Kenneth Voyles, the man who was shot by Grant,…

Just when I thought I’d heard it all. I’ve spent years listening to military job seekers navigate a brutal civilian job market: competing against thousands of applicants for a single opening, being told they’re overqualified, getting ghosted by employers deep into the interview process. These are painful but familiar stories.…

The New York Times has it in for 2A influencer and congressional candidate Brandon Herrera. Over the past few days opinion writer Michelle Goldberg devoted an entire column to Herrera’s campaign, and over the weekend the news side of the paper ran a lengthy piece, with both the opinion…

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President Donald Trump’s order to dramatically minimize military exercises in Asia with a longtime ally has drawn mixed reactions from the political and military communities. Trump, in a Truth Social post on Sunday, directed Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth to “substantially reduce” joint military exercises with South Korea, hours before the…

Giffords and other gun control organizations like to say that they don’t want to destroy the Second Amendment. They claim to respect your right to keep and bear arms. They just want some “common sense” regulations that will make the world safer for little kittens and puppies. …

A Marine Corps Veteran living in Arizona was prepared to give up his three elderly dogs that had been with his family for over 10 years after he was left homeless and unable to transition them to a new place. An employee at Maricopa County Animal Care and Control helped…

A veteran takes a lump-sum payment on the way out of the military and files for disability years later. They then move on with life. Eventually, a letter arrives from the Department of Veterans Affairs. The monthly disability check, it says, will not be coming. Not reduced, mind you. Withheld…

Tatyana Jordan breathed a sigh of relief, maybe her biggest, as she learned the outcome of a months-long internal Army investigation. Military.com was the first to report how Jordan, 30, of Columbia, S.C., alleged that her superior made derogatory and racist remarks toward her in 2025 as she worked at…